Proven Winner
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We are not talking at all enough about how insane this cast is
provenwinner.bsky.social
me, in the middle of watching one of the most visceral and original car chases of the last 25 years of film: I wonder if benicio is going to walk down a hallway again
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genuine would watch read a phone book type shit
provenwinner.bsky.social
just saw one battle after another, benicio del toro is our greatest living actor
provenwinner.bsky.social
Mark when his house gets upzoned
provenwinner.bsky.social
someone at dennis mires architects has to do the cutaway for this building. come on, you know you want to.
provenwinner.bsky.social
But for those who don’t know, here’s what’s getting torn down, we used to be a country, etc, etc
provenwinner.bsky.social
I feel like there’s six different jokes you could make here
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Thanks, this looks great!
provenwinner.bsky.social
But also, vaccines were always a better target because (1) people don’t like needles and (2) they‘re mandated by government experts and the whole movement is based on distrust of expertise and public enterprise. Going after a widely-available consumer good just doesn’t have the same juice.
provenwinner.bsky.social
Part of it is that conspiratorial movements don’t actually want the government to reveal the truth, because then their entire identity as conspiracists collapses.
provenwinner.bsky.social
I have no evidence but I kind of suspect that the tylenol=autism thing isn’t going to have legs in the alternative health crowd the way RFK might hope.
provenwinner.bsky.social
But McKibben would also point out how fossil fuel companies have strategically emphasized individual action to pre-empt or distract from collective action or regulation. So is there a “good” and a “bad” way to promote individual action? Or is the difference just the motives of the person doing it?
provenwinner.bsky.social
The other thing I wonder about is the slippery boundary between what is collective vs individual. For example, I see people like Bill McKibben sometimes promote the idea that by demonstrating and talking about individual action those actions can become ”contagious,” and have a collective impact…
provenwinner.bsky.social
Does anyone have recommendations for critical/scholarly writing on the interplay between individual and collective or systemic action on environmental issues? Stuff that looks at the pitfalls and potential of frameworks like personal carbon footprints or individual consumer choice?
provenwinner.bsky.social
15% of San Francisco voted for trump! That’s not nothing!
provenwinner.bsky.social
You guys have honestly never had a conversation with, like, your cousin's boyfriend or something?
provenwinner.bsky.social
I agree, but would also say this isn't just a swing state thing. 36% of Massachusetts voted for Trump in 2024! Honestly, if you conceive of your political opponents as some alien, unknowable race of irrational rubes you're basically just telling me you don't talk to people outside your own house.
patrickwyman.bsky.social
There are a lot of downsides to living in a swing state, like the constant barrage of fundraising texts, but one of the real benefits is that you can’t pretend people who disagree with you politically - even in horrific ways - are idiots, rubes, or sheep. They believe what they do for real reasons.
provenwinner.bsky.social
I don’t think I’ve ever been to a bookstore with a smoking section before?
provenwinner.bsky.social
I think this kind of 4chan nihilism does exist outside of a conventional left/right binary but it also exists very squarely in the present moment where the primary engine for all politics is the desire to epically own your opponents (mainly online).
michaelhobbes.bsky.social
It feels like this is becoming a more common mass shooter profile: Someone who's interested in politics but not as a vehicle to express clear values or a coherent viewpoint. He just wants to mock anyone who takes it seriously.
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Honestly he was probably the only person who actually did landscape urbanism.
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He got his flowers in the west to a degree, but probably not enough. His ability to synthesize theory, package it into a legible form for a broad audience, then work within his political context to create a massive portfolio of built work is pretty much unheard of since Olmsted.